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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Wordreader in topic "Aetas" definition?

While I cannot prove Horace never said "Ars longa, vita brevis.", it is common to attribute this to Seneca, and to remark that it was a paraphrase of Hippocrates... -- Cimon avaro

Don't feel bad. No one could ever prove that Horace never said, "Ars longa, vita brevis." MisterJayEm 21:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

"Aetas" definition?

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QUERY: I am confused. What does "Aetas" mean in this context? The English translation seems to me to skip over the word or should the word be considered as part of the 1st line? I know no Latin except for "carpe diem" .^_^.

"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

  • As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."


Wiktionary says ..... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aetas

  1. (principally): the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
  2. time of life, period of life, age quotations ▼
  3. an undefined, particularly long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
  4. (metonymically) a generation

Thank you for your help, Wordreader (talk) 23:52, 22 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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  • Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
    • Ars Poetica, 139
    • Cf. Matthew Paris (AD 1237), Fuderunt partum montes: en ridiculus mus. [The labouring mountains shook the earth, / And to a paltry mouse gave birth.]